MODE OF CARRYING BURDENS BY ONE PERSON............. TWO MEN CARRYING A PRESENT OF A LARGE JAR OF SPIRITS....... GENTLEMAN RIDING IN A SEDAN, WITH SERVANT ON FOOT................ FAC-SIMILE OF CASH COINED BY THE LAST EMPEROR, HIEN-FUNG...... FAC-SIMILE OF ANCIENT COIN, COINED DURING THE HAN DYNASTY..... PAGE 168 WRITING WITH A FORKED PEN AN ORACLE ON SAND........ WIDOWS.......................... 217 MAN WITH BASKETS GATHERING LETTERED PAPER.. PART OF A BRIDAL PROCESSION EN ROUTE TO THE HOUSE OF THE BRIDEGROOM ON THE WEDDING-DAY... 248 BOY DRESSED LIKE A FEMALE IN ACTING A THEATRICAL PLAY......... 272 ། selves are various. to DesUnited Artificial -The Connec empire eaking al Tsin art of :nment reach- lese are om the CHINA AND THE CHINESE. CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE. rd China not Known by the Chinese.-The Names they Use to Desite their Country.-General Resemblance of China to the United tes: in Position, Form, Climate, Productions, Natural and Artificial isions, and in Area.-Description of the Walled Cities of China.-The pulation of the Empire.-Peculiarities of Climate, and their Connecwith the Monsoons.-Rivers and Natural Scenery. E word China is at present unknown in the empire we call by that name. It was no doubt introduced in West from the nations of Central Asia, who in speaking Chinese use the terms Jin, Chin, Sin, Sinæ, and Sinistæ. e names were probably derived from the powerful Tsin ly, which held sway over the north-western part of a as early as 770 B.C.; and obtained the government the whole empire 250 years B.C. The early prominence this name in that part of the country which was first reachby the routes of Western traders strongly confirms the view w generally adopted by commentators, that the Chinese are ecifically referred to in the forty-ninth chapter of IsaiahBehold, these shall come from far; and lo, these from the forth and from the West: and these from the land of Sinim." The names which the Chinese use in speaking of themselves are various. The most common one is Chung Kwoh, |